Editors’ note: Randy is a senior at Minnesota New Country School (Henderson). He works full-time, part of the time at two dairy farms in Le Sueur and Norseland. This doesn’t leave much time for socializing, and, besides, his pal One-Eyed Sally hates movies. I come to school and the first words out of some kid’s […]
The kind of person everybody Wants to call their friend When you talk they look into Your eyes and listen with Their whole heart. When they hug, they hug tight As if they were giving you a circle Of safety, and you know that Somehow everything is going to be okay.
With my tears, I will always love you. Through all the days I have been with you. Now I only have tears in my eyes and dreams that I will see you again. Through all the pain and sadness, I will always have my heart and soul for you. My eyes will always fill with […]
We as humans should get T-shirts that read, “Diverse. Period.” For that is what we are: diverse. We can’t help it. It’s been that way since the beginning of time. Enough of that, though. What I want to talk about is charter school student diversity. In most schools, we are the people who have been […]
Writer’s note: I wrote this after our first learning block at Great Expectations School in Grand Marais. We had school in the Community Center ice rink for the first two and a half months (except for a week that we had to move out because of the County Fair). Being in this place that was […]
Editors’ note: Gretchen Sage-Martinson, an advisor at Avalon High School submitted this article by one of her students who was responding to the prompt, “How does going to Avalon affect you as a student?” The writer wished to remain anonymous. Going to school used to feel comparable to walking into a hospital waiting room. The […]
A star fell to earth And kept shining in somebody’s life As it grew Creating a marvelous sparkle of joy In the beautiful heart Creating you
I like Hanska Community School because on Fridays we get to work on a school web page. The person who teaches my class is Mr. Scott. We are making the web page to make money for the school.
At this very moment, I feel very frustrated. There is a fly buzzing around my face, my head is pulsing with pain, and I have a lot to do in very little time. If this was last year, I would have given up by now; my car would be running and I would have raced […]
What I like best at Hanska Community School is the art class. Ms. Thompson teaches us how to make stained glass, pottery, mosaics, and we also made a quilt. We got to sew it by ourselves. We made a kiln to put our pottery in. We do lots of fun subjects here.